Gholamreza Tousian Shandiz - Assistant Professor, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Majid Akhshabi - Assistant Professor, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Majid Ahmadi - M.A. Art Research, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

Symbols-signs on stones, wood, weaved textiles and metal ornaments reflect art anthoropology of tribes and nomads. Motifs-symbols indicate abstraction. Abstraction represents compression. It reflects speed and life syle concepts. Tribes and nomads which are emigrating through east to west or south to north, or vice versa use motifs-symbols on their materials of their environment by weaving, engraving, painting to produce a kind of handcrafts. Motif-symbol is a text. A text used among tribes and nomads. Functions of motif-symbol relate to ancestors and like a heritage conveys to members settled with their tribes and nomads.Motifs-symbols from past to present influence on visual space of members of tribes and nomads with usage of motifs-symbols on their handcrafts. Motifs-symbols have at least three functions. They are livelihood, beliefs, and asset of household and style of thinking of nomads and tribes. Motifs-symbols are inseparable components of tribes and nomads such as those who are setteled in North Khorasan and Turkmen kinspersons. Continuity, repetition, imitation and creation are necessities of graphic objects which are visible on weavings. Motifs-symbols primarily conveys concepts for weaver then household and nomads.Most weavers in tribes and nomads are girls and women. Girls and women cover mostly livelihood of their family. In this article motifs-symbols are divided to motifs-symbols of livelihood and motifs-symbols of beliefs, and livelihood motifs-symbols are divided to fixed livelihood motifs-symbols and animated livelihood motifs-symbols and all of them related to style of thinking algorithm. The question of this article is how usage and utilization of motifs- symbols establish visual space and then convey to visual culture by this algorithm.

Graph, Node, Algorithm, Mental Framing, Abstract Thinking, Motif-Symbol, Livelihood, Belief.